Quotes About Better

Know that life is a river or a stream which is constant and each appearance is as a pool that may refresh, in which others may be refreshed . . . make the world a better place because ye have lived in it. Ye can only do that by the hour, by the moment, by the day ye live. For ye are not promised more than one day in the physical consciousness at a time. Use it—don't abuse it! 5392

Part of me thinks it is better to go on as we have, to act as though we don't know how ill suited we have been for each other. Less painful that way. Perhaps better than this belated offering. This fragile, trembling little glimpse of how it could have been between us. All it will beget is regret, I tell myself, and what good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable.

But why allow someone to make a bad choice when a little information might engender a better one? It's hard to wake up and see the sun if the blinds are pulled.

Must redefine utopia. It isn't the perfect end-product of our wishes, define it so and it deserves the scorn of those who sneer when they hear the word. No. Utopia is the process of making a better world, the name for one path history can take, a dynamic, tumultuous, agonizing process, with no end. Struggle forever. Compare it to the present course of history. If you can.

But that was back in the twentieth century, in the dark ages, the age of fascisms both home and abroad. Since the floods they had learned better, hadn't they?

Bad form, Regin! Wrong car. Immediately after, the house shook again. Oh, much better! Nix assured them. That was Bowen's!

I told him what I told myself whenever my guilt grew too painful: "It happened. It hurt. Better things await you.

Is it a toy? asked Button-Bright softly. No, dear, answered Dorothy; it's better than that. It's the fairy dwelling of a fairy prince.

If you only had brains in your head you would be as good a man as any of them, and a better man than some of them.

Perhaps it is better to be a machine that does its duty than a flesh-and-blood person who will not, for a dead truth is better than a live falsehood

It's something that was very interesting to me to be a part of and all of them again because of the relationship. Some of the superhero movies are better than others.

In death, you once more challenge people from every strata, religion, and position to think about how their own actions do and can change the world for better or worse.

Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better.

It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it.

There are a lot of Grinches out there that would like nothing better than to take any references to religion out of the holiday season.

Respect children because they're human beings and they deserve respect, and they'll grow up to be better people.

If you want me to treat your ideas with more respect, get some better ideas.

Respect your haters. They're the only ones who think you're better than them.

Will you ever bring a better gift for the world than the breathing respect that you carry wherever you go right now?

He hugged her hard. "I love you. My life is so much better with you in it than out of it.

Romantic art is always stylized: the better the art, the cleaner and more attractive and intelligent the stylization.

Stop. Talking."Her whisper was muffled against his lips, and his answering chuckle was muffled by hers."What would you have me do instead?""For starters? Put your mouth to better use.

The unavoidable implication is that the struggle for emancipation is a never-ending one—it always fails; it always falls short of its objective. Reaching a destination inevitably brings with it killjoys and spoilers, making for new struggles. But this should come as no surprise since universality, after all, is about the very absence of meaning—impossible to reach, possess, or fully realize. Struggle, struggle again, struggle better.

Exploitation is capitalism's most effective naturalized violence, a systemic violence experienced by most of the world, and yet rarely recognized as a form of violence, or a form of violence that you can do something about: We know that capitalism is bad, ruthless even, but we don't believe anything else is better. Capitalism or the Gulag? We choose the former each time.